​May in the Senior Room
The senior room had a busy May and have started preparations for Confirmation this coming June. To coincide with this, the Confirmation pupils visited Glencomeragh Retreat Centre on Wednesday 11th May. Here they had a very fun day team building, re-connecting and building resilience. They really enjoyed the quizzes, talks and time spent outside in the good weather.
In class this month 3rd to 6th class  had a visit from Clonmel Fire House. They learnt about fire hazards around the home and what to do in the event of a fire. Children got to see a real-life fire experiment to demonstrate how smoke rises and also received fun safety packs to bring home.
As part of our visual arts this month the children have been learning the cup song in music and in art class  have been looking at photography and installation art.
 
May in the Junior Room
This month, the junior room have been celebrating the beginning of summer by learning all about seasonal flowers and sewing seeds. They planted cress seeds in class which grew into silly haired monsters. They explored the theme of “The Garden Centre” in Aistear, in which they constructed different types of flowers from bun cases and straws, designed and built a garden centre using small world materials and created their own flower shop for role play. 
In visual arts, children focused on natural still life this month. They drew sunflowers and parts of different types of leaves and plants from observation while developing their knowledge of line, scale, blind drawing and shading.
In SESE children learnt all about the digestive system and had great fun carrying out a gross experiment. They used cream crackers, coca cola, sandwich bags and a pair of tights to demonstrate what happens to food as it travels from one end of the body to the other.
 
May 9th-May 13th , we celebrated Creative Schools Week. As part of this, the whole school took part in one final podcasting workshop with Muireann our Creative School’s Associate . The senior room children put their knowledge to use and in small teams they went about creating and designing a slot for a radio station while learning about using microphones and audio technology. Meanwhile, the junior room pupils names and created their own Q and A podcasts around the theme of biodiversity and gardening. They had great fun listening back on themselves, editing their pieces and inserting sound effects.
On 10th May, we resumed swimming lessons in Clonmel pool for a block of six weeks. The children were thrilled to be back in the water, having been unable do go as part of a school group for the past few years. All pupils are also continuing to enjoy Zumba lessons with Kool School each Friday afternoon. They are learning new moves and routines each week.  

​We had a very busy lead up to the Easter holidays in Killurney N.S.
We continued to engage in textile workshops with Carrie Lynam in which the children constructed a whole school collaborative piece of textile art, based on the theme of “New life in Spring”. The infants made wooly sheep and cotton flowers while the older pupils hand wove flower stems and made buds using looms. The senior room also stitched the names of some of the techniques they used into hessian for our display. Children from every class also took part in a taster podcasting workshop with Muireann, our Creative Schools Associate. They created scripts, learnt how to count themselves in on the microphone, and recorded and edited themselves using Keynote. They loved listening back over themselves on head sets and are looking forward to another workshop soon as part of our Creative Schools Week 9th-13th May.  
The senior room completed their biodiversity garden designs, which we have submitted to Graham Fitzpatrick from Biodiversity in Schools, who is currently giving us his expert advice on how to proceed with implementing our plans.
The junior room have been busy learning all about France in SESE. The first and second class researched various topics associated with the country and then took over as teachers, presenting projects to the junior and senior infants to share what they had learnt. We also had a French food tasting day in which the children got to sample baguettes, croissants, pain-au-chocolat and macarons.
On Monday 4th April, the senior room accompanied by Miss Hogan, attended Penance in Kilcash church with Fr. Carey.
All children entered the Clonmel Flower Show art competition. Junior infants to second class painted a Spring picture while third to sixth class made and decorated , paper maché Easter eggs. We were delighted to hear that we had several winners in the competition.  Well done to Grace O` Sullivan, Rebecca Dunne, Frankie Burke, Fred ffrench Davis, Ellie O Donnell, Clara O Donnell, Lily Burke, Ella-Rose Morrissey and Lucy Meagher.
On the 8th April, the day of the Easter holidays, Miss Hogan and the senior room designed and organized an Easter egg scavenger hunt for the junior room as part of our orienteering strand in PE. The children had to follow the clues around the school grounds in order to find and collect stamps. Thankfully, everyone was a winner at the end and received a prize of Cadburys Easter egg going home.
After the Easter break, the children began Zumba lessons with Niall from Kool School and are continuing to take part in GAA skills coaching once a week. We are braced for an action-packed term 3 here in Killurney N.S. with swimming lessons, school tours and much more to look forward to.